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Monday, November 09, 2020

entry arrow6:53 AM | Alex Trebek, 1940-2020



Alex Trebek [1940-2020] was the very soul of Jeopardy!, the unlikely TV game show that transcended its kind and became a strange amalgam of entertainment and knowledge. Granted, it was a heightened trivia show, but it had the aura of brain-expanding legitimacy akin to avidly poring over volumes of Encyclopedia Brittanica for knowledge's sake. And Trebek was the icon of that knowledge-seeking in a pop cultural realm, his charm a large part of what made Jeopardy! a huge success. His calm but quick steerage of the process provided a comfortable and cerebral safe harbour in a TV landscape full of Kardashians and Trump. Saddened by this loss. To quote the s.o., "I'd like Things That Make Me Sad for $600, Alex."

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